From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:44:12 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] rauc: bump to version 0.2 In-Reply-To: References: <20171114043141.8245-1-ayurovsky@impinj.com> <20171122041747.11363-1-yurovsky@gmail.com> <20171122213336.52a3e196@windsurf.lan> Message-ID: <20171122224412.1543e00d@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:23:35 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote: > > Is host-mksquashfs always needed by host-rauc, or only under certain > > conditions/configurations ? > > On the host side we use rauc to make a software update bundle. It does > this by shelling out to mksquashfs in order to turn a directory of > files (including a manifest) into a signed squashfs image. Isn't that specific to your RAUC use case? I assume other people can use RAUC without using signed squashfs images. So perhaps we shouldn't make host-mksquashfs a mandatory dependency like your patch does? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com